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Story 12 in The Adventures of 
Sherlock Holmes by Sir, Arthur 

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Conan Doyle. 
This LibriVox recording is in 

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the public domain. 
Story number 12, the adventure 

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of the copper beeches. 
To the man who loves art for its

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own sake, remarked Sherlock, 
Holmes tossing aside, the 

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advertisement sheet of the Daily
Telegraph. 

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It is frequently in its least 
important and lowliest 

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manifestations that the keenest 
pleasure is to be derived. 

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It is Pleasant to me to observe 
Watson that you have so far 

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grasped this truth that he 
needs. 

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Little records of our cases, 
which you have been good enough 

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to draw up. 
And I am bound to say 

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occasionally to embellish. 
You have given Prominence, not 

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so much to the many Coes celebra
and Sensational, trials in which

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I have figured, but rather to 
those incidents which may have 

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been trivial in themselves, but 
which have given room for those 

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faculties of deduction and of 
logical synthesis, which I have 

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made my special province. 
And yet said I smiling. 

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I cannot quite hold myself 
absolved from the charge of 

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sensationalism, which has been 
urged against my records. 

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You have earned perhaps he 
observed taking up a glowing 

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Cinder with the tongs and 
lighting with it, the long 

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Cherrywood pipe, which was won't
to replace his clay when he was 

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in a disputatious rather than a 
meditative mood. 

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You have earned perhaps in 
attempting to put Colour and 

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life into each of your 
statements. 

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Instead of confining yourself to
the task of placing upon record 

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that severe reasoning from cause
to effect, which is really the 

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only notable feature about the 
thing. 

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It seems to me that I've Done 
You full Justice in the matter. 

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I remarked with some coldness 
for I was repelled by the 

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egotism, which I had more than 
once observed to be a strong 

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factor in my friends. 
Character. 

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No, it is not selfishness or 
conceit said he answering. 

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As was his wont, my thoughts, 
rather than my words if I claim 

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full Justice for my art, it is 
because it is an impersonal 

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thing. 
Nothing Beyond Myself, crime, is

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common. 
Logic is rare. 

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Therefore, it is upon the logic 
rather than upon the crime that 

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you should dwell. 
You have degraded. 

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What should have been a course 
of lectures. 

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Lectures into a series of tales.
It was a cold morning of the 

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early spring and we sat after 
breakfast on either side of a 

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cheery fire in the old room at 
Baker Street. 

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A thick fog rolled down between 
the lines of dun-coloured houses

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and the opposing Windows loomed 
like dark shapeless blurs 

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through the heavy yellow 
wreaths. 

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Our gas was lit and Shone on the
white cloth and glimmer of China

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and metal for the table. 
Had not been cleared yet. 

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Sherlock Holmes had been silent 
all the morning dipping 

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continuously into the 
advertisement Columns of a 

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succession of papers until at 
last having. 

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Apparently given up his search. 
He had emerged in. 

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No, very sweet. 
Temper to lecture me upon my 

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literary shortcomings. 
At the same time. 

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He remarked after a pause during
which he had sat puffing at his 

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long pipe and gazing down into 
the fire. 

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You can hardly be open to a 
charge. 

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Sensationalism for out of these 
cases, which you have been so, 

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kind as to interest yourself in 
a fair proportion, do not treat 

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of crime in its legal sense at 
all. 

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The small matter in which I 
endeavored to help the king of 

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bohemia, the singular experience
of Miss Mary Sutherland. 

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The problem connected with the 
man with the twisted lip and the

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incident of the noble Bachelor 
were all matters which are 

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outside the pale of the law. 
But in a Voiding The 

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Sensational, I fear that you may
have bordered on the trivial. 

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The end may have been so I 
answered but the methods I hold 

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two have been novel and of 
Interest my dear fellow, what do

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the public the great unobservant
public? 

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Who could hardly tell a weaver 
by his tooth or a compositor by 

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his left thumb care about the 
finer shades of analysis and 

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deduction. 
But indeed, if you are trivial, 

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I cannot blame you for the days 
of the great cases are past man,

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or at least. 
Criminal man has lost all 

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Enterprise and originality as to
my own little practice. 

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It seems to be degenerating into
an agency for recovering lost 

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lead pencils and giving advice 
to young ladies from boarding 

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schools. 
I think that I have touched 

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bottom last. 
However, This note. 

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I had this morning marks. 
My zero-point. 

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I fancy read it. 
He tossed a crumpled letter 

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across to me. 
It was dated from Montague Place

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upon the preceding evening and 
ran. 

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Thus dear. 
Mr. Holmes. 

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I'm very anxious to consult you 
as to, whether I should, or 

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should not accept a situation 
which has been offered to me as 

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governess. 
I shall call it 10:30 tomorrow. 

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If I do not inconvenience, you 
Yours Faithfully. 

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Violet Hunter. 
Do you know the young lady I 

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asked not I it is half-past ten 
now. 

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Yes, and I have no doubt that is
her ring. 

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It may turn out to be of more 
interest than you think. 

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You remember that the affair of 
the blue carbuncle, which 

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appeared to be a mere whim at 
first developed into a serious 

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investigation. 
It may be. 

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So in this case, also. 
Well, let's hope so, but our 

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doubts will very soon be solved 
for here. 

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Unless I Much mistaken is the 
person in question. 

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As he spoke the door opened and 
a young lady entered the room. 

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She was plainly, but neatly 
dressed with a bright quick. 

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Face freckled like a plovers 
egg, and with the brisk manner 

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of a woman who has had her own 
way to make in the world. 

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You will excuse me for troubling
you. 

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I'm sure said she as my 
companion, Rose to greet her, 

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but I've had a very strange 
experience. 

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And as I have no parents or 
relations of any sort from whom 

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I could ask advice. 
I thought that perhaps you would

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be kind enough to tell me what I
should do. 

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Pray. 
Take a seat Miss Hunter. 

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I shall be happy to do anything 
that I can to serve you. 

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I could see that Holmes was 
favourably, impressed by the 

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manner and the speech of his new
client. 

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He looked her over in his 
searching fashion and then 

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composed himself with his Lids 
drooping and his fingertips 

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together to listen to her story.
I have been a governess for five

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years, said she in the family of
Colonel Spence Munro, but two 

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months ago, the colonel received
an appointment at Halifax in 

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Nova Scotia and took his 
children over to America with 

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him. 
So, I found myself without a 

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situation, I advertised and I 
answered advertisements, but 

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without success at last a little
money, which I had saved began 

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to run short and I was at my 
Wit's End as to what I should 

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do. 
There is a well-known Agency for

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governesses in the West End 
called West aways. 

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And there, I used to call about 
once a week in order. 

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To see whether anything had 
turned up which might suit me, 

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westaway was the name of the 
founder of the business, but it 

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is really managed by Miss 
stoper. 

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She sits in her own little 
office, and the ladies who are 

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seeking employment, wait in an 
anteroom, and are then shown in 

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one by one, when she consults 
her Ledger's and sees, whether 

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she has any Anything, which 
would suit them? 

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Well, when I called last week, I
was shown into the little office

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as usual, but I found that Miss 
stoper was not alone, a 

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prodigiously stout, man with a 
very smiling face and a great 

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heavy chin, which rolled down in
fold upon fold over his throat. 

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Sat at her elbow, with a pair of
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Looking very earnestly at the 
ladies who entered As I came in,

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he gave quite a jump in his 
chair and turned quickly to miss

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stoper. 
That will do said he I could not

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ask for anything better capital 
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He seemed quite enthusiastic and
rubbed his hands together in the

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most genial fashion. 
He was such a comfortable 

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looking man, but it was quite a 
pleasure to look at him. 

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You are looking for a situation.
Miss. 

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He asked? 
Yes, sir as governess. 

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Yes, sir. 
And what salary? 

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Do you wish? 
I had four pounds a month in my 

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last place with Colonel Spence 
Munro. 

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Oh tut-tut sweating, rank 
sweating. 

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He cried throwing his fat hands 
out into the air, like a man who

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is in a boiling passion. 
How could anyone offer? 

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So, pitiful, a sum to a lady 
with such attractions? 

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On the compliments. 
My accomplishments sir may be 

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less than you. 
Imagine said I a little French, 

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a little German music and 
drawing tapped at he cried. 

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This is all quite beside. 
The question. 

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The point is have you or have 
you not the bearing and 

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deportment of a lady there? 
It is in a nutshell. 

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If you have not, you are not 
fitted for the rearing of a 

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child who may someday play a 
considerable part in the history

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of the country, but if Have why 
then? 

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How could any gentleman ask you 
to condescend to accept anything

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under the three figures? 
Your salary with me Madam would 

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commence at £100 a year. 
You may imagine. 

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Mr. Holmes to me, destitute as I
was such, an offer seemed almost

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too good to be true. 
The gentleman. 

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However, seeing perhaps the look
of incredulity upon my face, 

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opened pocketbook and took out a
note. 

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It is also my custom said he 
smiling in the most Pleasant 

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fashion, until his eyes were 
just two little shining slits 

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amid, the white creases of his 
face to advance to my young 

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ladies, half their salary 
beforehand so that they may meet

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any little expenses of their 
journey and their wardrobe. 

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It seemed to me that I had never
met so fascinating and so 

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thoughtful a man as I was 
already in debt to my Tradesmen.

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The advance was a great 
convenience and yet there was 

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something unnatural about the 
whole transaction, which made me

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wish to know a little more 
before I quite committed myself.

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May I ask you where you live, 
sir? 

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Said I Hampshire Charming rural 
place. 

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The copper beeches five miles on
the far side of Winchester. 

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It is the most lovely country. 
My dear young lady and the 

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dearest Old Country House. 
And my duty sir, I should be 

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glad to know what they would be 
one. 

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Child one, dear little Romper 
just six years old. 

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Oh, if you could see him killing
cockroaches with a slipper smack

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smack, smack, three gone before 
you could wink. 

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He leaned back in his chair and 
laughed his eyes into his head. 

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Again. 
I was a little startled at the 

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nature of the child's Amusement,
but the father's laughter made 

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me think that perhaps he was 
joking. 

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My sole duties. 
Then I asked her to take charge 

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of a single child. 
No, no, not the soul. 

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Not the sole. 
My dear young lady. 

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He cried your duty would be as 
I'm sure your good sense would 

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suggest to obey any To commands,
my wife might give provided 

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always that they were such 
commands as a lady might with 

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propriety. 
Obey. 

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You see no difficulty here. 
I should be happy to make myself

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useful quite so in dress. 
Now. 

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For example, we are fatty 
people, you know, fatty, but 

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kind-hearted. 
If you were asked to wear any 

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dress, which we might give you, 
you would not object to our 

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little whim. 
Hey, no said I considerably 

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astonished at his words or to 
sit here or sit there. 

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That would not be offensive to 
you. 

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Oh, no or to cut your hair quite
short before you come to us. 

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I could hardly believe my ears 
as you may observe. 

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Mr. Holmes. 
My hair is somewhat luxuriant 

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and of a rather peculiar tint of
chestnut. 

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It has been considered artistic.
I could not dream of sacrificing

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it in his offhand fashion. 
I'm afraid that this is quite 

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impossible. 
Said I, he had been watching me 

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eagerly out of his small eyes 
and I could see a shadow pass 

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over his face. 
As I spoke. 

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I am afraid that it is quite 
essential said he it is a little

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fancy of my wife's and ladies 
fancies, you know, Madam ladies 

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fancies must be consulted and so
you won't cut your hair. 

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No, sir. 
I really could not I answered 

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firmly. 
Not very well, then that's quite

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settles the matter. 
It is a Pity because, in other 

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respects, he would really have 
done very nicely in that case. 

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Miss stoper. 
I had best inspect a few more of

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your young ladies. 
The manageress had sat all this 

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while busy with her papers 
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but she glanced at me now, with 
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that I could not help suspecting
that she had lost a handsome 

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commission through my refusal. 
Do you desire your name to be 

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kept upon the books? 
She asked if you please miss 

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stoper. 
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useless. 
Since you refused a most 

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excellent offers in this fashion
said, she sharply you can Expect

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us to exert ourselves to find 
another such opening for you. 

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Good day to you, Miss Hunter. 
She struck a Gong upon the 

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table, and I was shown out by 
the page. 

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Well, mr. 
Holmes, when I got back to my 

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lodgings and found little enough
in the cupboard and two or three

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bills upon the table, I began to
ask myself whether I had not 

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done a very foolish thing. 
After all, if these people had 

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strange fads and expected. 
Obedience on the most 

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extraordinary matters. 
They were at least ready to pay 

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for their eccentricity very few.
Governesses in England are 

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getting 100 pounds a year. 
Besides, what use was my hair to

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me? 
Many people are improved by 

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wearing it short, and perhaps I 
should be among the number next 

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day. 
I was inclined to think that I 

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had made a mistake. 
And by the day after, I was sure

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of it, I'd almost overcome my 
pride so far as to go back to 

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the agency and inquire whether 
the place was still open. 

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When I received this letter from
the gentleman himself. 

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I have it here and I will It to 
you. 

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The copper beeches near 
Winchester. 

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Dear Miss Hunter. 
Miss stoper has very kindly 

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given me your address and I 
write from here to ask you 

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whether you have reconsidered 
your decision. 

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My wife is very anxious that you
should come for. 

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She has been much attracted by 
my description of you. 

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We are willing to give 30 pounds
a quarter or 120 pounds a year. 

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So as to recompense you for any 
little inconvenience, which our 

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fads may cause you they are not 
very exacting. 

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After all, my wife is fond of a 
particular shade of electric 

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blue and would like you to wear 
such a dress indoors in the 

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morning. 
You need not. 

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However go to the expense of 
Purchasing one, as we have one 

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belonging to my dear daughter 
Alice, now in Philadelphia, 

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which would I should think, fits
you very well then, as to 

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sitting here or there or amusing
yourself in any manner indicated

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that need cause you no 
inconvenience as regards your 

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hair. 
It is no doubt a Pity, 

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especially as I could not help 
remarking its beauty during our 

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short interview, but I'm afraid 
that I must remain firm upon 

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this point. 
Aunt and I only hope that the 

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increased salary May recompense 
you for the loss. 

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Your duties as far as the child 
is concerned are very light. 

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Now, do try to come and I shall 
meet you with the dog-cart at 

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Winchester. 
Let me know your train Yours 

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Faithfully, jeffro rucastle. 
That is the letter which I have 

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just received. 
Mr. Holmes. 

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And my mind is made up that I 
will accept it. 

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I thought, however, that before 
taking the final step. 

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I should like to submit the 
whole matter to your 

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consideration. 
Well, miss Hunter, if your mind 

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is made up that settles. 
The question said, Holmes 

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smiling, but you would not 
advise me to refuse. 

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I confess that it is not the 
situation which I should like to

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see a sister of mine. 
Apply for. 

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What is the meaning of it all? 
Mr. Holmes? 

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I have no data. 
I cannot tell. 

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Perhaps you have yourself. 
Formed some opinion. 

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Well, there seems to me to be 
only one possible solution. 

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Mr. Rucastle seemed to be very 
kind good-natured man. 

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Is it not possible that his wife
is a lunatic that he desires to 

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keep the matter quiet for fear. 
She should be taken to an asylum

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and that he humours her fancies 
in every way in order to prevent

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an outbreak. 
That is a possible solution. 

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In fact as matters stand, which 
is the most probable one. 

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But in any case, it does not 
seem to be a nice household for 

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a young lady. 
But the money mr. 

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Holmes, the money. 
Well, yes, of course, the pay is

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good too good. 
That is what makes me uneasy. 

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Why should they give you 120 
pounds a year when they could 

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have their pick for 40 pounds? 
There must be some strong. 

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Reason behind. 
I thought that if I told you the

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circumstances, you would 
understand afterwards. 

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If I wanted your help, I should 
feel so much stronger. 

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If I felt that you were at the 
back of me. 

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Oh, you may carry that feeling 
away with you. 

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I assure you that your little 
problem promises to be the most 

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interesting, which has come my 
way for some months. 

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There is something distinctly 
novel about some of the features

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if you should find yourself in 
doubt or in danger. 

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Danger, what danger do you 
foresee Holmes shook his head 

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Gravely. 
It would cease to be a danger. 

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If we could Define. 
It said he. 

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But at any time day or night a 
telegram would bring me down to 

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your help. 
That is enough. 

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She Rose briskly from her chair 
with the anxiety. 

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All swept from her face. 
I shall go down to Hampshire 

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quite easy. 
My mind. 

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Now. 
I shall write to mr. 

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Rucastle, at once sacrifice my 
poor hair tonight and start for 

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Winchester tomorrow. 
With a few grateful words, to 

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Holmes, she bade us both 
goodnight and bustled off upon 

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her way. 
At least said I, as we heard her

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quick firm steps descending the 
stairs. 

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She seems to be a young lady 
who's very well, able to take 

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care of herself. 
And she would need to be said, 

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Holmes, Gravely. 
I am much mistaken. 

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If we do not hear from her 
before, many days are past. 

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It was not very long before. 
My friends. 

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Prediction was fulfilled, a 
fortnight went by during which I

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frequently found my thoughts 
turning in her Direction and 

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wondering what strange side 
alley of Human Experience. 

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This lonely woman had strayed 
into the unusual salary, the 

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Curious conditions, the Duties, 
all pointed to something 

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abnormal though, whether a fad 
or a plot or whether the man 

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were a philanthropist or a 
villain. 

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It was quite beyond my powers to
determine As two homes, I 

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observed that he sat frequently 
for half an hour on end with 

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knitted brows and an abstracted 
air, but he swept the matter 

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away with a wave of his hand. 
When I mentioned it data data 

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data. 
He cried impatiently. 

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I can't make bricks without 
clay. 

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And yet he would always wind up 
by muttering that no sister of 

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his should ever have accepted 
such a situation. 

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The telegram which we eventually
received came late one night 

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just as I was thinking of 
turning in and homes were 

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settling down to one of those 
all-night chemical researches, 

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which he frequently indulged in 
when I would leave him stooping 

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over a retort and a test-tube at
night and find him in the same 

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position when I came down to 
breakfast in the morning. 

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He opened the yellow envelope, 
and then glancing at the message

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through it across to me. 
Just look up the trains, in 

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bradshaw,', he and turned back 
to his chemical studies. 

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The summons was a brief and 
Urgent one. 

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Please be at the Black Swan 
Hotel at Winchester at midnight 

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tomorrow. 
It said, do come. 

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I'm at my Wit's End Hunter. 
Will you come up with me? 

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Asked Holmes glancing up. 
I should wish to just look it 

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up. 
Then there's a train at 9:30 

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said, I glancing over my 
Bradshaw. 

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It is due at Winchester at 
11:30. 

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That will do very nicely. 
Then perhaps I had better 

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postpone my analysis of the 
acetones as we may need to be at

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our best in the morning. 
By 11:00 the next day, we were 

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well on our way to the Old 
English. 

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Capital homes had been buried in
the morning papers all the way 

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down. 
But after we had passed the 

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Hampshire border, he threw them 
down and began to admire, the 

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scenery. 
It was an ideal spring day, a 

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light blue sky, flecked with 
little fleecy, white clouds, 

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drifting across from west to 
east. 

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The Sun was shining very 
brightly. 

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And yet, there was an 
exhilarating nip in the air. 

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Which set an edge to a man's 
energy, all over the countryside

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away to The Rolling Hills around
Aldershot, the little red and 

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gray rules of The Farmstead ings
peeped out from amid. 

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The light green of the new 
foliage. 

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Are they not fresh and 
beautiful? 

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I cried with all the enthusiasm 
of a man fresh from the fog's of

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Baker Street, but Holmes shook 
his head Gravely. 

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Do you know what sun' said? 
He that it is one of the curses 

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of a mind with a turn, like mine
that I must look at everything 

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with reference to my own special
subject. 

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You look at these scattered 
houses and you are impressed by 

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their beauty. 
I look at them and the only 

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thought, which comes to me is a 
feeling of their isolation and 

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of the impunity with which crime
may be committed there. 

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Good Heavens. 
I cried, who would associate 

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crime with these dear old 
homesteads. 

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They always fill me with a 
certain horror. 

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It is my belief Watson founded 
upon my experience that the 

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lowest and vilest alleys in 
London do not present a more 

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Dreadful record of sin than does
the smiling in the beautiful 

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countryside. 
You horrify me, but the reason 

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is very obvious. 
The pressure of public opinion 

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can do in the town, what? 
The law cannot accomplish. 

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There is no Lane, so vile that 
the scream of a tortured child. 

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The thud of a drunkards blow, 
does not beget sympathy and 

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indignation among the 
neighbours. 

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And then the whole Machinery of 
justice is ever so close. 

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That a word of complaint can set
it going and there is but a step

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between the crime and the doc, 
but look at these lonely houses 

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each in its own Fields, filled 
for the most part with poor 

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ignorant. 
Folk who know, little of the 

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law. 
Think of the Deeds of hellish 

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cruelty, the hidden wickedness, 
which may go on year in year out

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in such places and none. 
The wiser had this lady who 

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appeals to us for help gone to 
live in Winchester. 

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I should never have had a fear 
for her. 

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It is the five miles of country,
which makes the danger still. 

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It is clear that she is not 
personally threatened. 

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Know, if she can come to 
Winchester to meet us. 

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She can get away quite. 
So she has her Freedom. 

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What can be the matter then. 
Can you suggest? 

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No explanation? 
I have devised, seven separate 

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explanations Each of which would
cover the facts as far as we 

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know them. 
But which of these is correct. 

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Can only be determined by the 
fresh information, which we 

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shall no doubt find waiting for 
us. 

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Well, there is a tower of the 
cathedral and we shall soon, 

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learn all that Miss Hunter has 
to tell. 

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The Black Swan is an inn of 
repute in the High Street at no 

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distance from the station. 
And there we found the young 

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lady waiting for us. 
She had engaged a sitting-room 

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and our lunch awaited us upon 
the table. 

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I am so delighted that you have 
come. 

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She said earnestly. 
It is so very kind of you both 

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but indeed, I do not know what I
should do. 

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Your advice will be altogether 
invaluable to me. 

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Pray. 
Tell us what has happened to 

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you. 
I will do so and I must be quick

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for. 
I've promised mr. 

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Rucastle to be back before 
three. 

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I got his leave to come into 
town this morning though. 

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He little knew for what purpose.
Let us have everything in its 

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due order, Holmes thrust his 
long thin legs out towards the 

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fire and composed himself to 
listen. 

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In the first place. 
I'm I say that. 

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I've met on the whole with no 
actual ill-treatment from mr. 

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And mrs. 
Rucastle. 

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It is only fair to them to say 
that, but I cannot understand 

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them and I'm not easy in my mind
about them. 

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What can you not understand 
their reasons for their conduct,

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but you should have it all. 
Just as it occurred, when I came

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down. 
Mr. Rucastle met me here and 

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drove me in his dog-cart to The 
Copper. 

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Our beaches it is as he said, 
beautifully situated, but it is 

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not beautiful. 
In itself for it is a large 

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Square block of a house 
whitewashed, but all stained and

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streaked with damp and bad 
weather. 

454
00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:15,500
There are grounds round it Woods
on three sides. 

455
00:27:15,900 --> 00:27:19,200
And on the fourth, a field which
slopes down to the Southampton 

456
00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:22,500
highroad which curves passed 
about a hundred yards from the 

457
00:27:22,500 --> 00:27:26,300
front door. 
This ground in front belongs to 

458
00:27:26,300 --> 00:27:30,000
the house, but the woods all 
around are part of Lord 

459
00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:34,300
sotherton preserves, a clump of 
copper beeches immediately. 

460
00:27:34,300 --> 00:27:36,900
In front of the hall. 
Door has given its name to the 

461
00:27:36,900 --> 00:27:40,600
place. 
I was driven over by my employer

462
00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:44,200
who was as amiable as ever and 
was introduced by him that 

463
00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:46,500
evening to his wife and the 
child. 

464
00:27:47,300 --> 00:27:50,000
There was no truth. 
Mr. Holmes in the conjecture 

465
00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:52,500
which seemed to us to be 
probable in your rooms at Baker 

466
00:27:52,500 --> 00:27:55,400
Street. 
Mrs. Rucastle is not mad. 

467
00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:59,700
I found her to be a silent 
pale-faced woman, much younger 

468
00:27:59,700 --> 00:28:02,000
than her husband. 
Not more than 30. 

469
00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:05,500
I should think while he can 
hardly be less than 45. 

470
00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:09,000
From the conversation. 
I have gathered that they have 

471
00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:13,200
been married about seven years 
that he was a widower and that 

472
00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:16,800
his only child by the first wife
was the daughter has gone to 

473
00:28:16,808 --> 00:28:20,800
Philadelphia. 
Mr. Rucastle told me in private,

474
00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:23,600
but the reason why she had left 
them was that. 

475
00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:26,100
She had an unreasoning aversion 
to her stepmother. 

476
00:28:27,300 --> 00:28:29,700
As the daughter could not have 
been less than 20. 

477
00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:32,900
I can quite imagine that her 
position must have been 

478
00:28:32,900 --> 00:28:35,400
uncomfortable with her father's 
young wife. 

479
00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:40,200
Mrs. Rucastle seemed to me to be
colourless in mind as well, as 

480
00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:43,400
in feature. 
She impressed me, neither 

481
00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:47,500
favourably, nor the reverse. 
She was a nonentity. 

482
00:28:48,500 --> 00:28:51,600
It was easy to see that she was 
passionately devoted, both to 

483
00:28:51,608 --> 00:28:56,100
her husband and to a little son.
I like gray eyes. 

484
00:28:56,200 --> 00:28:59,900
Wandered continually from one to
the other noting, every little 

485
00:28:59,900 --> 00:29:02,800
want and forestalling it if 
possible. 

486
00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:08,100
He was kind to her also in his 
bluff boisterous fashion and on 

487
00:29:08,100 --> 00:29:12,300
the whole they seem to be a 
happy couple and yet she had 

488
00:29:12,300 --> 00:29:16,900
some secret sorrow this woman. 
She would often be lost in deep 

489
00:29:16,900 --> 00:29:21,100
thought with the saddest look 
upon her face more than once. 

490
00:29:21,100 --> 00:29:24,900
I've surprised her in tears. 
I have thought sometimes that it

491
00:29:24,900 --> 00:29:27,200
was the disposition of her 
child, which weighed upon her 

492
00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:30,800
mind for I have never met so 
utterly spoiled and so 

493
00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:35,500
ill-natured, a little creature. 
He is small for his age with a 

494
00:29:35,500 --> 00:29:37,200
head which is quite 
disproportionately. 

495
00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:41,800
Large his whole life appears to 
be spent in an alternation 

496
00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:46,400
between Savage fits of passion 
and gloomy intervals of sulking,

497
00:29:47,300 --> 00:29:50,200
giving pain to any creature, 
weaker than himself. 

498
00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:54,100
Seems to be his one idea of 
amusement and Shows quite 

499
00:29:54,100 --> 00:29:57,800
remarkable talent in planning, 
the capture of mice, little 

500
00:29:57,800 --> 00:30:01,100
birds, and insects, but I would 
rather not talk about the 

501
00:30:01,108 --> 00:30:04,200
creature. 
Mr. Holmes, and indeed, he has 

502
00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:08,600
little to do with my story. 
I am glad of all details, 

503
00:30:08,900 --> 00:30:12,700
remarked my friend, whether they
seem to you to be relevant or 

504
00:30:12,700 --> 00:30:15,800
not. 
I shall try not to miss anything

505
00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:20,600
of importance to one unpleasant 
thing about the house, which 

506
00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:23,800
struck me at once was the 
appearance and conduct of the 

507
00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:27,300
servants. 
There are only two, a man and 

508
00:30:27,300 --> 00:30:32,100
his wife taller for that is. 
His name is a rough uncouth man 

509
00:30:32,100 --> 00:30:36,100
with grizzled hair and whiskers,
and a Perpetual smell of drink 

510
00:30:36,100 --> 00:30:41,800
twice since I've been with them.
He has been quite drunk and yet 

511
00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:43,500
mr. 
Rucastle seemed to take no 

512
00:30:43,500 --> 00:30:47,000
notice of it. 
His wife is very tall and a 

513
00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:50,400
strong woman with a sour face as
silent as mrs. 

514
00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:55,300
Rucastle and much less amiable. 
They are our most unpleasant 

515
00:30:55,300 --> 00:30:59,700
couple, but fortunately, I spend
most of my time in the nursery 

516
00:31:00,100 --> 00:31:03,400
and my own room which are next 
to each other in one corner of 

517
00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:06,600
the building. 
For two days after my arrival, 

518
00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:10,600
at the Copper beeches. 
My life was very quiet on the 

519
00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:13,600
third. 
Mrs. Rucastle came down just 

520
00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:16,700
after breakfast and whispered 
something to her husband. 

521
00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:20,100
Oh, yes. 
Said, he turning to me. 

522
00:31:20,900 --> 00:31:23,800
We are very much obliged to you,
Miss Hunter for falling in with 

523
00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:25,900
our whims so far as to cut your 
hair. 

524
00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:28,600
I assure you. 
That it is not detracted in the 

525
00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:30,700
tiniest Iota from your 
appearance. 

526
00:31:31,300 --> 00:31:33,900
We shall now see how the 
electric-blue dress will become 

527
00:31:33,900 --> 00:31:36,100
you. 
You'll find it laid out upon the

528
00:31:36,100 --> 00:31:39,000
bed in your room. 
And if you would be so good as 

529
00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:41,600
to put it on. 
We should both be extremely 

530
00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:45,200
obliged. 
The dress, which I found waiting

531
00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:47,900
for me, was of a peculiar shade 
of blue. 

532
00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:52,700
It was of excellent material, a 
sort of beige, but it bore 

533
00:31:52,700 --> 00:31:55,400
unmistakable signs of having 
been warned before. 

534
00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:57,800
It could not have been a better 
fit. 

535
00:31:57,800 --> 00:32:00,500
If I had been measured for it 
both. 

536
00:32:00,500 --> 00:32:03,400
Mr. And mrs. 
Rucastle expressed a delight at 

537
00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:07,000
look of it, which seemed quite 
exaggerated in its vehemence. 

538
00:32:07,900 --> 00:32:10,900
They were waiting for me in the 
drawing room, which is a very 

539
00:32:10,900 --> 00:32:15,100
large room stretching along the 
entire front of the house with 

540
00:32:15,100 --> 00:32:17,900
three long Windows, reaching 
down to the floor. 

541
00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:23,200
A chair have been placed close 
to the central window with its 

542
00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:26,400
back. 
Turned towards it in this I was 

543
00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:30,500
asked to sit and then mr. 
Rucastle walking up and down on 

544
00:32:30,500 --> 00:32:33,800
the other side of the room began
to tell me a series of the 

545
00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:36,400
funniest stories that I have 
ever listened to. 

546
00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:41,500
You cannot imagine how comically
was and I laughed until I was 

547
00:32:41,500 --> 00:32:44,400
quite weary mrs. 
Rucastle. 

548
00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:47,400
However, who has evidently no 
sense of humor. 

549
00:32:47,900 --> 00:32:52,400
Never so much as smiled, but sat
with her hands in her lap and a 

550
00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:57,600
sad anxious look upon her face. 
After an hour or so, mr. 

551
00:32:57,600 --> 00:33:00,700
Rucastle suddenly remarked that 
it was time to commence the 

552
00:33:00,700 --> 00:33:04,900
duties of the day that I might 
change my dress and go to little

553
00:33:04,900 --> 00:33:08,300
Edward in the nursery. 
Two days later. 

554
00:33:08,300 --> 00:33:12,200
This same performance was gone 
through under exactly similar 

555
00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:14,300
circumstances. 
Again. 

556
00:33:14,300 --> 00:33:17,100
I changed my dress again. 
I sat in the window. 

557
00:33:17,100 --> 00:33:21,500
And again, I laughed very 
heartily at the funny stories of

558
00:33:21,500 --> 00:33:25,900
which my employer had an immense
répertoire and which he told 

559
00:33:25,900 --> 00:33:31,200
inimitable e, then he handed me 
a yellow-backed novel and moving

560
00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:35,200
my chair, a little sideways that
my own shadow might not fall 

561
00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:38,200
upon the page. 
He begged me to Read aloud to 

562
00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:41,400
him. 
I read for about 10 minutes, 

563
00:33:41,700 --> 00:33:45,400
beginning in the heart of a 
chapter and then, suddenly in 

564
00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:48,800
the middle of a sentence, he 
ordered me to cease and to 

565
00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:52,400
change my dress, you can easily 
imagine. 

566
00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:56,200
Mr. Holmes, how curious I became
as to what the meaning of this 

567
00:33:56,200 --> 00:33:58,700
extraordinary performance could 
possibly be. 

568
00:33:59,700 --> 00:34:03,500
They were always very careful. 
I observed to turn my face away 

569
00:34:03,500 --> 00:34:07,300
from the window so that I became
consumed with the desire to see 

570
00:34:07,300 --> 00:34:09,199
what was going on behind my 
back. 

571
00:34:10,100 --> 00:34:14,500
At first it seemed to be 
impossible but I soon devised a 

572
00:34:14,507 --> 00:34:18,199
means my hand mirror have been 
broken. 

573
00:34:18,900 --> 00:34:22,300
So I happy thought seized me. 
And I concealed piece of the 

574
00:34:22,300 --> 00:34:26,800
glass in my handkerchief, on the
next occasion, in the midst of 

575
00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:29,699
my laughter. 
I put my handkerchief up to my 

576
00:34:29,699 --> 00:34:33,300
eyes and was able to, with a 
little management to see all 

577
00:34:33,300 --> 00:34:36,900
that there was behind me. 
I confess that I was 

578
00:34:36,900 --> 00:34:41,000
disappointed. 
There was nothing at least. 

579
00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:45,000
That was my first impression at 
the Second Glance. 

580
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:48,699
However, I perceived that there 
was a man standing in the 

581
00:34:48,699 --> 00:34:54,000
Southampton Road, a small 
bearded man, in a grey suit who 

582
00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:55,699
seemed to be looking in my 
direction. 

583
00:34:56,699 --> 00:35:00,000
The road is an important Highway
and there are usually people 

584
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:03,300
there. 
This man however was leaning 

585
00:35:03,300 --> 00:35:06,600
against the railings, which 
bordered our field and was 

586
00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:10,700
looking earnestly. 
Up are lowered my handkerchief 

587
00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:14,000
and glanced at mrs. 
Rucastle to find her eyes fixed 

588
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:16,500
upon me with a most searching 
gaze. 

589
00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:20,300
She said nothing. 
But I am convinced that she had 

590
00:35:20,300 --> 00:35:23,800
divined, that I had a mirror in 
my hand and had seen what was 

591
00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:26,500
behind me. 
She Rose at once. 

592
00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:30,600
Jeff. 
Roe said she, There is an 

593
00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:33,700
impertinent fellow upon the road
there, who stares up at Miss 

594
00:35:33,700 --> 00:35:37,300
Hunter? 
No friend of yours Miss Hunter. 

595
00:35:37,600 --> 00:35:41,900
He asked, no, I know no one in 
these parts. 

596
00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:47,000
Dear me how very impertinent 
kindly turn round and notion to 

597
00:35:47,008 --> 00:35:50,200
him to go away. 
Surely it would be better to 

598
00:35:50,200 --> 00:35:52,300
take no notice. 
No. 

599
00:35:52,300 --> 00:35:56,500
No, we should have him loitering
here, always kindly, turn round 

600
00:35:56,700 --> 00:36:02,000
and wave him away like that. 
I did as I was told and at the 

601
00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:05,800
same instant, mrs. 
Rucastle, Drew Down The Blind. 

602
00:36:06,700 --> 00:36:09,300
That was a week ago. 
And from that time. 

603
00:36:09,300 --> 00:36:12,800
I have not sat again in the 
window nor have I worn the Blue 

604
00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:15,400
Dress nor seen the man in the 
road. 

605
00:36:16,500 --> 00:36:21,000
Pray, continue said Holmes, your
narrative promises to be a most 

606
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:25,100
interesting one. 
You will find it, rather 

607
00:36:25,100 --> 00:36:28,200
disconnected our fear, and their
may prove to be a little 

608
00:36:28,200 --> 00:36:31,200
relation between the different 
incidents of which I speak. 

609
00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:34,700
On the very first day that I 
was, at the Copper beeches. 

610
00:36:35,300 --> 00:36:38,700
Mr. Rucastle took me to a small 
Outhouse, which stands near the 

611
00:36:38,700 --> 00:36:41,700
kitchen door as we approached 
it. 

612
00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:45,400
I heard the sharp rattling of a 
chain and the sounds of a large 

613
00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:50,400
animal moving about. 
Look in here said, Mr. Rucastle 

614
00:36:50,700 --> 00:36:52,700
showing me a slit between two 
planks. 

615
00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:57,100
Is he not a beauty? 
I looked through and was 

616
00:36:57,100 --> 00:37:01,200
conscious of two glowing eyes 
and of a vague figure huddled up

617
00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:04,700
in the darkness. 
No, he frightened, said my 

618
00:37:04,700 --> 00:37:08,400
employer laughing at the start 
which I had given, its only 

619
00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:12,200
Carlo my Mastiff. 
I call him mine but really old 

620
00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:14,800
taller. 
My groom is the only man who can

621
00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:17,500
do anything with him. 
We feed him once a day. 

622
00:37:17,900 --> 00:37:20,200
I'm not too much then so that he
is always. 

623
00:37:20,200 --> 00:37:24,700
As Keen as mustard taller, lets 
him loose every night and God 

624
00:37:24,700 --> 00:37:27,900
help the trespasser. 
Whom he lays his fangs upon for 

625
00:37:27,900 --> 00:37:30,000
goodness sake. 
Don't you ever on any pretext 

626
00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:33,100
set your foot over the threshold
at night for it's as much as 

627
00:37:33,100 --> 00:37:38,200
your life is worth. 
The warning was no idle one for 

628
00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:40,700
two nights later. 
I happened to look out of my 

629
00:37:40,700 --> 00:37:43,500
bedroom window about 2:00 in the
morning. 

630
00:37:44,500 --> 00:37:46,400
It was a beautiful moonlight 
night. 

631
00:37:46,700 --> 00:37:49,600
And the lawn in front of the 
house was silvered over and 

632
00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:54,100
almost as bright as day. 
I was standing rapt in the 

633
00:37:54,100 --> 00:37:57,400
peaceful beauty of the scene. 
When I was aware, that something

634
00:37:57,400 --> 00:37:59,700
was moving under the shadow of 
the copper beeches. 

635
00:38:01,300 --> 00:38:03,100
As it emerged into the 
Moonshine. 

636
00:38:03,500 --> 00:38:07,700
I saw what it was. 
It was a giant, dog, as large as

637
00:38:07,700 --> 00:38:10,800
a calf. 
Tawny tinted with hanging jowl, 

638
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:13,800
black muzzle, and huge, 
projecting bones. 

639
00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:18,000
It walks slowly across the lawn 
and vanished into the shadow 

640
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:22,200
upon the other side. 
That Dreadful Sentinel sent a 

641
00:38:22,200 --> 00:38:25,500
chill to my heart, which I do 
not think that any burglar could

642
00:38:25,500 --> 00:38:28,500
have done. 
And now I have a very strange 

643
00:38:28,500 --> 00:38:33,400
experience to tell you I had as,
you know, cut off my hair in 

644
00:38:33,400 --> 00:38:36,900
London and I had placed it in a 
great coil at the bottom of my 

645
00:38:36,900 --> 00:38:41,100
trunk one evening. 
After the child was in bed. 

646
00:38:41,600 --> 00:38:44,600
I began to amuse myself by 
examining the furniture of my 

647
00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:49,000
room and by rearranging my own 
little things, there was an old 

648
00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:52,300
chest of drawers in the room. 
The two upper ones empty and 

649
00:38:52,300 --> 00:38:56,400
open the lower one locked. 
I had filled the first two with 

650
00:38:56,400 --> 00:39:00,600
my linen and as I had still much
to pack away, I was naturally. 

651
00:39:00,700 --> 00:39:03,300
Annoyed at not having the use of
the third drawer. 

652
00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:06,600
It struck me. 
That it might have been fastened

653
00:39:06,600 --> 00:39:10,100
by a mere oversight. 
So I took out my bunch of keys 

654
00:39:10,100 --> 00:39:14,400
and try to open it very first 
key fitted to Perfection. 

655
00:39:14,800 --> 00:39:19,400
And I drew the drawer open. 
It was only one thing in it, but

656
00:39:19,400 --> 00:39:21,700
I'm sure that you would never 
guess what it was. 

657
00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:27,000
It was my coil of hair. 
I took it up and examined it. 

658
00:39:27,600 --> 00:39:32,500
It was of the same peculiar tint
and the same thickness, but then

659
00:39:32,500 --> 00:39:37,100
the impossibility of the thing 
obtruded itself upon me, how 

660
00:39:37,100 --> 00:39:39,700
could my hair have been locked 
in the drawer? 

661
00:39:40,700 --> 00:39:44,400
With trembling hands? 
I undid my trunk turned out the 

662
00:39:44,408 --> 00:39:47,400
contents and Drew from the 
bottom. 

663
00:39:47,400 --> 00:39:51,000
My own hair. 
I laid the two Tresses together 

664
00:39:51,600 --> 00:39:53,800
and I assure you that they were 
identical. 

665
00:39:55,200 --> 00:39:59,600
Was it not extraordinary puzzle 
as I would I could make nothing 

666
00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:03,000
at all of what it meant. 
I return the strange hair to the

667
00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:06,400
drawer and I said nothing of the
matter to the rucastles. 

668
00:40:06,900 --> 00:40:09,900
As I felt that I had put myself 
in the wrong by opening a drawer

669
00:40:09,900 --> 00:40:14,300
which they had locked. 
I Am Naturally observant as you 

670
00:40:14,300 --> 00:40:18,100
may have remarked. 
Mr. Holmes, and I soon had a 

671
00:40:18,100 --> 00:40:19,800
pretty good plan of the whole 
house. 

672
00:40:19,800 --> 00:40:22,800
In my head. 
There was one Wing however, 

673
00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:24,900
which appeared not to be 
inhabited at all. 

674
00:40:25,100 --> 00:40:28,400
All a door, which faced that? 
Which led into the quarters of 

675
00:40:28,400 --> 00:40:32,400
the toller's opened into this 
Suite, but it was invariably 

676
00:40:32,400 --> 00:40:36,200
locked one day. 
However, as I ascended, the 

677
00:40:36,200 --> 00:40:39,500
stair, I met mr. 
Rucastle coming out through this

678
00:40:39,500 --> 00:40:44,100
door, his keys in his hand and a
look on his face which made him 

679
00:40:44,100 --> 00:40:47,500
a very different person to the 
round jovial man to whom. 

680
00:40:47,500 --> 00:40:50,700
I was accustomed. 
His cheeks were red. 

681
00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:53,200
His brow was all crinkled with 
anger. 

682
00:40:54,200 --> 00:40:57,000
And the veins stood out at his 
temples with passion. 

683
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:00,800
He locked the door and hurried 
past me without a word or a 

684
00:41:00,808 --> 00:41:04,000
look. 
This aroused my curiosity. 

685
00:41:04,700 --> 00:41:08,300
So when I went out for a walk in
the grounds with my charge, I 

686
00:41:08,300 --> 00:41:11,700
strolled round to the side from 
which I could see the windows of

687
00:41:11,700 --> 00:41:15,400
this part of the house. 
There were four of them in a row

688
00:41:16,100 --> 00:41:19,300
three of which were simply 
dirty, while the fourth was 

689
00:41:19,300 --> 00:41:21,800
shuttered up. 
They were evidently all 

690
00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:25,200
deserted. 
As I strolled up and down 

691
00:41:25,500 --> 00:41:29,400
glancing at them occasionally. 
Mr. Rucastle came out to me 

692
00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:31,700
looking as Merry and jovial as 
ever. 

693
00:41:32,600 --> 00:41:36,900
Oh said he, you must not think 
me, rude, if I pass you without 

694
00:41:36,900 --> 00:41:38,400
a word. 
My dear young lady. 

695
00:41:38,900 --> 00:41:41,200
I was preoccupied with business 
matters. 

696
00:41:42,400 --> 00:41:44,400
I assured him that I was not 
offended. 

697
00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:49,400
By the way, said, I you seem to 
have quite a suite of spare 

698
00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:52,400
rooms up there and one of them 
has the shutters up. 

699
00:41:53,400 --> 00:41:57,200
He looked surprised and as it 
seemed to me a little startled 

700
00:41:57,200 --> 00:42:02,700
at my remark photography is one 
of my hobbies said, he I've made

701
00:42:02,700 --> 00:42:05,700
my dark room up there. 
But dear me what? 

702
00:42:05,700 --> 00:42:08,700
An observant young lady. 
We have come upon, who would 

703
00:42:08,700 --> 00:42:11,200
have believed it. 
Who would have ever believed it.

704
00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:16,800
He spoke in a jesting tone, but 
there was no jest in his eyes as

705
00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:20,800
he looked at me. 
I read suspicion there and 

706
00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:24,500
annoyance but no jest. 
Well, mr. 

707
00:42:24,500 --> 00:42:27,100
Holmes from the moment that I 
understood that there was 

708
00:42:27,100 --> 00:42:30,200
something about that Suite of 
rooms, which I was not to know. 

709
00:42:30,800 --> 00:42:32,700
I was all on fire to go over 
them. 

710
00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:35,800
It was Not Mere curiosity 
though. 

711
00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:40,700
I have my share of that. 
It was more a feeling of Duty, a

712
00:42:40,700 --> 00:42:43,700
feeling that some good might 
come from my penetrating to this

713
00:42:43,700 --> 00:42:46,900
place. 
They talk of woman's Instinct, 

714
00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:51,000
perhaps it was Woman's instinct,
which gave me that feeling at 

715
00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:55,100
any rate, it was there. 
And I was keenly on the lookout 

716
00:42:55,100 --> 00:42:57,400
for any chance to pass the 
Forbidden door. 

717
00:42:58,900 --> 00:43:01,100
It was only yesterday that the 
chance came. 

718
00:43:01,800 --> 00:43:05,800
I may tell you that besides mr. 
Rucastle, both Toller and his 

719
00:43:05,800 --> 00:43:09,000
wife, find something to do in 
these deserted rooms. 

720
00:43:09,700 --> 00:43:12,800
And I once saw him carrying a 
large black linen bag with him 

721
00:43:12,800 --> 00:43:16,300
through the door. 
Recently, he's been drinking 

722
00:43:16,300 --> 00:43:19,500
hard and yesterday evening. 
He was very drunk. 

723
00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:23,400
And when I came upstairs, there 
was the key in the door. 

724
00:43:24,600 --> 00:43:26,900
I have no doubt at all that he 
had left it there. 

725
00:43:27,500 --> 00:43:30,000
Mr. And mrs. 
Rucastle were both downstairs 

726
00:43:30,500 --> 00:43:33,800
and the child was with them. 
So that I had an admirable 

727
00:43:33,800 --> 00:43:37,000
opportunity. 
I turned the key gently in the 

728
00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:40,100
lock opened the door and slipped
through. 

729
00:43:41,300 --> 00:43:44,600
There was a little passage in 
front of me and papered and 

730
00:43:44,600 --> 00:43:48,200
uncarpeted which turned at a 
right angle at the farther end 

731
00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:53,000
round this corner with three 
doors in a line, the first and 

732
00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:56,300
third of which were open. 
They each led into an empty 

733
00:43:56,300 --> 00:44:01,100
room, Dusty and cheerless with 
two windows in the one and one 

734
00:44:01,100 --> 00:44:04,200
in the other. 
So thick with dirt that the 

735
00:44:04,200 --> 00:44:06,700
evening light glimmered dimly 
through them. 

736
00:44:07,100 --> 00:44:11,600
The scented always closed and 
across the outside of it. 

737
00:44:11,600 --> 00:44:14,600
Had been fastened one of the 
broad bars of an iron bed 

738
00:44:14,600 --> 00:44:18,900
padlocked, at one end to a ring 
in the wall and fastened at the 

739
00:44:18,900 --> 00:44:23,400
other with Stout cord. 
The door itself was locked as 

740
00:44:23,400 --> 00:44:25,600
well. 
And the key was not there. 

741
00:44:25,600 --> 00:44:30,100
This barricaded door 
corresponded, clearly with the 

742
00:44:30,100 --> 00:44:34,300
shuttered window outside. 
And yet, I could see by the 

743
00:44:34,300 --> 00:44:38,200
Glimmer from beneath it at the 
room was not Not in darkness. 

744
00:44:39,100 --> 00:44:41,600
Evidently. 
There was a skylight which let 

745
00:44:41,600 --> 00:44:46,400
in light from above as I stood 
in the passage gazing at the 

746
00:44:46,400 --> 00:44:50,000
Sinister door and wondering what
secret it might Veil. 

747
00:44:50,700 --> 00:44:54,200
I suddenly heard the sound of 
steps within the room and saw a 

748
00:44:54,200 --> 00:44:57,600
shadow pass backward and forward
against the little slit of dim 

749
00:44:57,600 --> 00:44:59,900
light, which Shone out from 
under the door. 

750
00:45:01,200 --> 00:45:04,800
A mad, unreasoning Terror, rose 
up in me at the sight. 

751
00:45:04,800 --> 00:45:07,900
Mr. Holmes. 
My overstrung nerves failed. 

752
00:45:07,900 --> 00:45:10,900
Me suddenly. 
And I turned and ran ran as 

753
00:45:10,900 --> 00:45:12,700
though, some Dreadful hand were 
behind. 

754
00:45:12,700 --> 00:45:15,000
Me clutching at the skirt of my 
dress. 

755
00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:19,100
I rushed Down The Passage 
through the door and straight 

756
00:45:19,100 --> 00:45:21,700
into the arms of mr. 
Rucastle, who was waiting 

757
00:45:21,700 --> 00:45:26,900
outside. 
So said he smiling it was you 

758
00:45:26,900 --> 00:45:29,300
then. 
I thought it must be when I saw 

759
00:45:29,300 --> 00:45:32,400
the door open. 
Oh, I'm so frightened. 

760
00:45:32,700 --> 00:45:39,500
I panted my dear young lady, my 
dear young lady and what has 

761
00:45:39,500 --> 00:45:41,500
frightened you? 
My dear young lady. 

762
00:45:42,600 --> 00:45:44,900
But his voice was just a little 
too coaxing. 

763
00:45:45,600 --> 00:45:48,800
He overdid it. 
I was keenly on my guard against

764
00:45:48,800 --> 00:45:52,100
him. 
I was foolish enough to go into 

765
00:45:52,100 --> 00:45:55,100
the empty Wing. 
I answered but it is. 

766
00:45:55,100 --> 00:45:58,000
So lonely. 
And Eerie in this dim light that

767
00:45:58,000 --> 00:45:59,600
I was frightened and ran out 
again. 

768
00:46:00,300 --> 00:46:02,100
Oh it is so dreadfully still in 
there. 

769
00:46:03,200 --> 00:46:06,500
Only that said, he looking at me
keenly. 

770
00:46:07,600 --> 00:46:12,200
Why, what did you think? 
I asked, why do you think that I

771
00:46:12,200 --> 00:46:15,700
lock the door? 
I am sure that I do not know. 

772
00:46:16,500 --> 00:46:18,900
It is to keep people out who 
have no business there. 

773
00:46:18,900 --> 00:46:22,900
Do you see he was still smiling 
in that most amiable manner? 

774
00:46:24,200 --> 00:46:28,500
I'm sure if I had known well, 
then you know now. 

775
00:46:28,800 --> 00:46:32,500
And if you ever put your foot 
over that threshold again here 

776
00:46:32,500 --> 00:46:36,400
in an instant, the smile 
hardened into a grin of rage and

777
00:46:36,400 --> 00:46:38,600
he glared down at me with a face
of a demon. 

778
00:46:39,600 --> 00:46:43,800
I'll throw you to the Mastiff. 
I was so terrified. 

779
00:46:44,100 --> 00:46:47,500
As I do not know what I did. 
I suppose that I must have 

780
00:46:47,500 --> 00:46:51,000
rushed past him into my room. 
I remember nothing until I found

781
00:46:51,000 --> 00:46:54,100
myself lying on my bed trembling
all over. 

782
00:46:54,800 --> 00:46:55,600
Then. 
I thought of you. 

783
00:46:55,600 --> 00:46:58,400
Mr. Holmes. 
I could not live there longer 

784
00:46:58,400 --> 00:47:02,000
without some advice. 
I was frightened of the House of

785
00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:06,800
the man of the woman of the 
servants, even if the child, 

786
00:47:07,400 --> 00:47:10,700
they were all horrible to me. 
If I could only bring you down, 

787
00:47:10,700 --> 00:47:14,500
all will be well. 
Of course, I might have fled 

788
00:47:14,500 --> 00:47:17,600
from the house. 
But my curiosity was almost as 

789
00:47:17,600 --> 00:47:21,100
strong as my fears. 
My mind was soon made up. 

790
00:47:21,600 --> 00:47:25,800
I would send you a wire. 
I put on my hat and cloak went 

791
00:47:25,800 --> 00:47:29,000
down to the office, which is 
about half a mile from the house

792
00:47:29,500 --> 00:47:32,200
and then returned feeling very 
much easier. 

793
00:47:33,400 --> 00:47:35,500
A horrible doubt came into my 
mind. 

794
00:47:35,800 --> 00:47:39,200
As I approached the door, lest 
the dog might be loose, but I 

795
00:47:39,207 --> 00:47:42,200
remembered that Toller had drunk
himself into a state of 

796
00:47:42,200 --> 00:47:45,600
insensibility that evening. 
And I knew that he was the only 

797
00:47:45,600 --> 00:47:48,700
one in the household who had any
influence with the Savage 

798
00:47:48,700 --> 00:47:51,600
creature, or who would venture 
to set him free. 

799
00:47:52,600 --> 00:47:56,400
I slipped in in safety. 
And lay awake half the night in 

800
00:47:56,400 --> 00:47:58,200
my joy at the thought of seeing 
you. 

801
00:47:59,700 --> 00:48:01,900
I'll have no difficulty in 
getting leave to come into 

802
00:48:01,900 --> 00:48:06,800
Winchester this morning, but I 
must be back before 3:00 for mr.

803
00:48:06,800 --> 00:48:09,300
And mrs. 
Rucastle are going on a visit 

804
00:48:09,600 --> 00:48:11,200
and will be away all the 
evening. 

805
00:48:11,800 --> 00:48:13,700
So that I must look after the 
child. 

806
00:48:14,600 --> 00:48:16,600
Now. 
I have told you all my 

807
00:48:16,600 --> 00:48:19,300
Adventures. 
Mr. Holmes and I should be very 

808
00:48:19,300 --> 00:48:24,100
glad if you could tell me what 
it all means and above all, what

809
00:48:24,100 --> 00:48:27,800
I should do. 
Holmes and I had listened 

810
00:48:27,800 --> 00:48:30,300
Spellbound to this extraordinary
story. 

811
00:48:31,200 --> 00:48:33,800
My friend Rose now and paced up 
and down the room. 

812
00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:37,500
His hands in his pockets and an 
expression of the most profound 

813
00:48:37,500 --> 00:48:41,600
gravity upon his face. 
Is taller still drunk. 

814
00:48:41,900 --> 00:48:43,700
He asked? 
Yes. 

815
00:48:44,100 --> 00:48:47,000
I heard his wife tell. 
Mrs. Rucastle that she could do 

816
00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:51,300
nothing with him. 
That is well and the rucastles 

817
00:48:51,300 --> 00:48:53,300
go out tonight. 
Yes. 

818
00:48:54,100 --> 00:48:56,300
Is there a cellar with a good 
strong lock? 

819
00:48:57,100 --> 00:49:01,100
Yes, The Wine Cellar? 
You seem to meet of acted all 

820
00:49:01,100 --> 00:49:04,100
through this matter, like a very
brave and sensible, girl, Miss 

821
00:49:04,100 --> 00:49:06,100
Hunter. 
Do you think that you could 

822
00:49:06,100 --> 00:49:10,000
perform one more feat? 
I should not ask it of you. 

823
00:49:10,000 --> 00:49:12,600
If I did not think you quite an 
exceptional woman. 

824
00:49:13,800 --> 00:49:15,800
I will try. 
What is it? 

825
00:49:16,900 --> 00:49:20,300
We shall be at the Copper 
beeches by 7:00, my friend. 

826
00:49:20,300 --> 00:49:24,600
And I, the rucastles will be 
gone by that time and tala, will

827
00:49:24,600 --> 00:49:27,800
we hope be incapable there? 
Only remains. 

828
00:49:27,800 --> 00:49:30,300
Mrs. Toller who? 
Give the alarm. 

829
00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:34,300
If you could send her into the 
Cellar, on some errand and then 

830
00:49:34,300 --> 00:49:37,300
turn the key upon her. 
You would facilitate matters 

831
00:49:37,300 --> 00:49:39,900
immensely. 
I will do it. 

832
00:49:40,700 --> 00:49:43,000
Excellent. 
We shall then look thoroughly 

833
00:49:43,000 --> 00:49:46,300
into the affair. 
Of course, there is only one 

834
00:49:46,300 --> 00:49:49,600
feasible explanation. 
You have been brought there to 

835
00:49:49,600 --> 00:49:53,700
personate someone and the real 
person is imprisoned in this 

836
00:49:53,700 --> 00:49:57,500
chamber. 
That is obvious as to who this 

837
00:49:57,500 --> 00:50:00,800
prisoner is. 
I have no doubt that it is the 

838
00:50:00,800 --> 00:50:05,300
daughter, Miss Alice rucastle. 
If I remember right, who was 

839
00:50:05,300 --> 00:50:08,700
said to have gone to America, 
you were chosen doubtless. 

840
00:50:08,800 --> 00:50:12,900
Plus as resembling her in height
figure and the colour of your 

841
00:50:12,900 --> 00:50:17,700
hair, hers been cut off, very 
possibly in some illness 

842
00:50:17,700 --> 00:50:21,000
through, which she has passed. 
And so, of course, yours had to 

843
00:50:21,000 --> 00:50:25,400
be sacrificed also, by a curious
chance, You Came Upon her 

844
00:50:25,400 --> 00:50:27,900
Tresses. 
The man in the road was 

845
00:50:27,900 --> 00:50:29,600
undoubtedly, some friend of 
hers. 

846
00:50:30,100 --> 00:50:32,700
Possibly her fiance and no 
doubt. 

847
00:50:32,700 --> 00:50:36,400
As you wore the girl's dress and
were so like her he was 

848
00:50:36,400 --> 00:50:39,900
convinced from your laughter 
whenever he I saw you and 

849
00:50:39,900 --> 00:50:43,600
afterwards from your gesture 
that Miss rucastle was perfectly

850
00:50:43,600 --> 00:50:46,900
happy and that she no longer 
desired his attentions. 

851
00:50:47,800 --> 00:50:50,700
The dog is let loose at night to
prevent him from endeavouring to

852
00:50:50,700 --> 00:50:54,000
communicate with her. 
So much is fairly clear. 

853
00:50:55,100 --> 00:50:58,700
The most serious point in this 
case is the disposition of the 

854
00:50:58,700 --> 00:51:01,900
child. 
What on Earth is that to do with

855
00:51:01,900 --> 00:51:03,700
it? 
I ejaculated. 

856
00:51:04,400 --> 00:51:08,100
My dear Watson. 
You, as a medical man are 

857
00:51:08,100 --> 00:51:11,800
continually gaining light as to 
the Tendencies of a child by the

858
00:51:11,800 --> 00:51:14,600
study of the parents. 
Don't you see that? 

859
00:51:14,600 --> 00:51:18,300
The converse is equally valid. 
I have frequently gained my 

860
00:51:18,300 --> 00:51:21,600
first real insight into the 
character of parents, by 

861
00:51:21,600 --> 00:51:25,600
studying their children. 
This child's disposition is 

862
00:51:25,600 --> 00:51:28,600
abnormally, cruel? 
Merely for cruelty's sake. 

863
00:51:29,100 --> 00:51:32,100
And whether he derives this from
his smiling, father, as I should

864
00:51:32,100 --> 00:51:36,400
suspect, or from his mother, It 
bodes evil for the poor girl, 

865
00:51:36,400 --> 00:51:40,000
who is in their power. 
I'm sure that you're right. 

866
00:51:40,100 --> 00:51:44,100
Mr. Holmes cried, our client, a 
thousand things come back to me,

867
00:51:44,100 --> 00:51:45,800
which make me certain that you 
have hit it. 

868
00:51:46,400 --> 00:51:49,000
Oh, let us lose. 
Not an instant in bringing help 

869
00:51:49,000 --> 00:51:53,500
to this poor creature. 
We must be circumspect for. 

870
00:51:53,500 --> 00:51:55,300
We are dealing with a very 
cunning man. 

871
00:51:56,000 --> 00:51:59,400
We can do nothing until 7:00 at 
that hour. 

872
00:51:59,400 --> 00:52:02,900
We shall be with you and it will
not be long before we solve the 

873
00:52:02,900 --> 00:52:06,600
mystery. 
We were as good as our word for 

874
00:52:06,600 --> 00:52:08,900
it was just seven when we 
reached the copper beeches. 

875
00:52:10,300 --> 00:52:14,700
Having put up our trap at a 
Wayside public-house the group 

876
00:52:14,700 --> 00:52:18,300
of trees with their dark leaves,
shining like burnished metal in 

877
00:52:18,300 --> 00:52:21,600
the light of the Setting Sun 
were sufficient to Mark the 

878
00:52:21,600 --> 00:52:25,200
house even had Miss Hunter not 
been standing smiling on the 

879
00:52:25,207 --> 00:52:27,600
doorstep. 
Have you managed? 

880
00:52:27,600 --> 00:52:31,400
It asked Holmes a loud? 
Thudding noise came from 

881
00:52:31,400 --> 00:52:34,500
somewhere downstairs. 
That is mrs. 

882
00:52:34,500 --> 00:52:38,200
Toller in the seller said she 
her husband lies snoring on the 

883
00:52:38,200 --> 00:52:41,800
kitchen rug. 
Here are his keys which are the 

884
00:52:41,800 --> 00:52:43,800
duplicates of mr. 
Rucastles. 

885
00:52:44,800 --> 00:52:47,400
You have done. 
Well indeed cried Holmes with 

886
00:52:47,400 --> 00:52:51,000
enthusiasm now lead the way and 
we shall soon. 

887
00:52:51,000 --> 00:52:52,800
See the end of this black 
business. 

888
00:52:54,200 --> 00:52:57,800
We passed up the stair unlocked,
the door followed on down, a 

889
00:52:57,800 --> 00:53:01,000
passage and found ourselves in 
front of the barricade which 

890
00:53:01,000 --> 00:53:05,200
Miss Hunter had described homes,
cut the cord and remove the 

891
00:53:05,200 --> 00:53:08,500
transverse bar. 
Then he tried the various keys 

892
00:53:08,500 --> 00:53:14,300
in the lock, but without success
no sound Came From Within and at

893
00:53:14,300 --> 00:53:16,800
the silence homes face clouded 
over. 

894
00:53:18,000 --> 00:53:22,900
I trust that we are not too late
said he I think Miss hunter that

895
00:53:22,900 --> 00:53:26,400
we had better go in. 
Out, you now Watson, Put Your 

896
00:53:26,400 --> 00:53:29,300
Shoulder to it and we shall see 
whether we cannot make our way 

897
00:53:29,300 --> 00:53:32,800
in. 
It was an old rickety door and 

898
00:53:32,800 --> 00:53:36,600
gave it once before our United 
strength together. 

899
00:53:36,600 --> 00:53:39,600
We rushed into the room. 
It was empty. 

900
00:53:40,800 --> 00:53:44,600
There was no furniture, save a 
little pallet bed, a small table

901
00:53:44,800 --> 00:53:49,200
and a basketful of linen. 
The Skylight above was open and 

902
00:53:49,200 --> 00:53:52,700
the Prisoner gone. 
There has been some villainy 

903
00:53:52,700 --> 00:53:56,300
here said, Holmes this Beauty 
has guessed Miss Hunters 

904
00:53:56,300 --> 00:53:59,000
intentions and has carried his 
victim off. 

905
00:54:00,000 --> 00:54:03,900
But how through the Skylight, we
shall soon? 

906
00:54:03,900 --> 00:54:07,000
See how he managed it. 
He swung himself up onto the 

907
00:54:07,000 --> 00:54:09,100
roof. 
Oh, yes. 

908
00:54:09,100 --> 00:54:12,200
He cried his. 
The end of a long light ladder 

909
00:54:12,200 --> 00:54:16,300
against the eaves. 
That is how he did it, but it is

910
00:54:16,300 --> 00:54:19,900
impossible, said Miss Hunter. 
The ladder was not there when 

911
00:54:19,900 --> 00:54:24,900
the rucastles went away. 
He has come back and done it. 

912
00:54:25,500 --> 00:54:28,100
I tell you that he is a clever 
and dangerous, man. 

913
00:54:28,700 --> 00:54:30,400
I should not be very much 
surprised. 

914
00:54:30,400 --> 00:54:33,600
If this were he whose step, I 
hear now upon the stair. 

915
00:54:34,400 --> 00:54:37,500
I think Watson that it would be 
as well for you to have your 

916
00:54:37,500 --> 00:54:38,300
pistol. 
Ready. 

917
00:54:39,500 --> 00:54:42,700
The words were hardly out of his
mouth before a man appeared at 

918
00:54:42,700 --> 00:54:47,300
the door of the room, a very fat
and Burly, man with a heavy 

919
00:54:47,300 --> 00:54:51,400
stick in his hand, Miss Hunter 
screamed and shrunk against the 

920
00:54:51,400 --> 00:54:54,600
wall at the sight of him. 
But Sherlock Holmes sprang 

921
00:54:54,600 --> 00:54:59,500
forward and confronted him. 
You villain said he where's your

922
00:54:59,500 --> 00:55:03,300
daughter? 
The fat man cast his eyes around

923
00:55:03,300 --> 00:55:07,300
and then up at the open 
Skylight, it is for me to ask 

924
00:55:07,300 --> 00:55:11,500
you that he shrieked. 
You thieves spies and thieves. 

925
00:55:11,700 --> 00:55:14,200
I have caught you have. 
I, you're in my power. 

926
00:55:14,300 --> 00:55:17,500
I will serve you. 
He turned and clattered down the

927
00:55:17,500 --> 00:55:22,000
stairs as hard as he could go. 
He's gone for the dog cried, 

928
00:55:22,000 --> 00:55:25,100
Miss Hunter. 
I have My Revolver said, I 

929
00:55:25,800 --> 00:55:29,100
better close the front door, 
cried Holmes and we all rushed 

930
00:55:29,100 --> 00:55:32,500
down the stairs together. 
We had hardly reached the hall. 

931
00:55:32,600 --> 00:55:36,100
When we heard the baying of a 
hound and then a scream of Agony

932
00:55:36,100 --> 00:55:39,000
with a horrible whirring sound, 
which it was Dreadful to listen 

933
00:55:39,000 --> 00:55:43,400
to an elderly man, with a red 
face and shaking limbs came 

934
00:55:43,400 --> 00:55:48,100
staggering out a side door. 
My God, he cried. 

935
00:55:48,400 --> 00:55:52,600
Some one is loose, the dog. 
It's not been fed for two days. 

936
00:55:53,100 --> 00:55:55,500
Quick quick or it'll be too 
late. 

937
00:55:56,600 --> 00:55:59,500
Holmes and I rushed out and 
round the angle of the house 

938
00:55:59,700 --> 00:56:01,600
with taller. 
Hurrying behind us. 

939
00:56:02,300 --> 00:56:04,400
There was the huge famished 
brute. 

940
00:56:04,600 --> 00:56:07,700
It's black muzzle. 
Buried in rucastles throat while

941
00:56:07,700 --> 00:56:11,300
he writhed and screamed upon the
ground running up. 

942
00:56:11,400 --> 00:56:14,500
I blew its brains out and it 
fell over with its Keen white 

943
00:56:14,500 --> 00:56:18,600
teeth, still meeting in the 
great creases of his neck with 

944
00:56:18,600 --> 00:56:21,100
much Labour. 
We separated them and carried 

945
00:56:21,100 --> 00:56:24,600
him living, but horribly mangled
into the house. 

946
00:56:25,700 --> 00:56:28,500
We laid him upon the 
drawing-room sofa and having 

947
00:56:28,500 --> 00:56:31,800
dispatched the sobered Toller to
Bear the news to his wife. 

948
00:56:32,400 --> 00:56:34,500
I did what I could to relieve 
his pain. 

949
00:56:35,800 --> 00:56:39,700
We were all assembled round him 
when the door opened and a tall 

950
00:56:39,700 --> 00:56:41,500
gaunt woman. 
Entered the room. 

951
00:56:42,500 --> 00:56:46,100
Mrs. Toller, cried Miss Hunter. 
Yes, Miss. 

952
00:56:46,600 --> 00:56:48,900
Mr. Rucastle. 
Let me out when he came back 

953
00:56:48,900 --> 00:56:50,000
before. 
He went up to you. 

954
00:56:51,600 --> 00:56:53,900
I miss it is a pity. 
You didn't. 

955
00:56:53,900 --> 00:56:56,300
Let me know what you are 
planning for. 

956
00:56:56,300 --> 00:56:58,700
I would have told you that your 
pains were wasted. 

957
00:56:59,400 --> 00:57:04,500
Huh, said Holmes, looking keenly
at her, it is clear that mrs. 

958
00:57:04,500 --> 00:57:06,400
Toller know. 
Knows more about this matter 

959
00:57:06,400 --> 00:57:08,800
than anyone else. 
Yes, sir. 

960
00:57:08,900 --> 00:57:10,400
I do. 
And I'm ready. 

961
00:57:10,400 --> 00:57:14,700
Enough to tell what I know. 
Then praise sit down and let us 

962
00:57:14,700 --> 00:57:17,400
hear it for there. 
Are several points on which I 

963
00:57:17,400 --> 00:57:19,900
must confess that I am still in 
the dark. 

964
00:57:20,900 --> 00:57:24,500
I will soon make it clear to, 
you said, she and I have done. 

965
00:57:24,500 --> 00:57:27,900
So before, now if I could have 
got out from a seller, if 

966
00:57:27,900 --> 00:57:30,800
there's police caught business 
over this, you'll remember that.

967
00:57:30,800 --> 00:57:32,600
I was the one that stood your 
friend. 

968
00:57:33,700 --> 00:57:35,800
And that I was Miss Alice's 
friend to. 

969
00:57:36,900 --> 00:57:38,400
She was never happy at home. 
Miss. 

970
00:57:38,400 --> 00:57:41,400
Alice wasn't from the time that 
her father married again. 

971
00:57:42,000 --> 00:57:45,400
She was slighted like and had no
say in anything, but it never 

972
00:57:45,400 --> 00:57:48,100
really became bad for her until 
after she met mr. 

973
00:57:48,100 --> 00:57:53,000
Fowler at a friend's house. 
As well as I could learn Miss 

974
00:57:53,000 --> 00:57:55,300
Alice had rights of her own by 
Will. 

975
00:57:56,400 --> 00:58:00,000
But she was so quiet and 
patient, she was, but she never 

976
00:58:00,000 --> 00:58:02,800
said a word about them, but just
left everything in mr. 

977
00:58:02,800 --> 00:58:05,900
Rucastles hands. 
He knew he was safe with her, 

978
00:58:06,400 --> 00:58:09,200
but when there was a chance of a
husband coming forward, who 

979
00:58:09,200 --> 00:58:11,000
would ask for all that? 
The law would give him. 

980
00:58:11,500 --> 00:58:13,900
Then her father thought it time 
to put a stop on it. 

981
00:58:14,300 --> 00:58:17,700
He wanted her to sign a paper so
that whether she married or not,

982
00:58:17,700 --> 00:58:20,900
he could use her money when she 
wouldn't do it. 

983
00:58:21,000 --> 00:58:24,700
He kept on worrying her until 
she got brain-fever and for six 

984
00:58:24,700 --> 00:58:28,800
weeks was at death's door. 
And she got better at last all 

985
00:58:28,800 --> 00:58:32,600
worn to a shadow and with her 
beautiful hair cut off, but that

986
00:58:32,600 --> 00:58:35,900
didn't make no change in her 
young man and he stuck to her as

987
00:58:35,900 --> 00:58:41,200
true as a man could be. 
Ah said Holmes, I think that 

988
00:58:41,200 --> 00:58:43,600
what you have been good enough 
to tell us makes the matter 

989
00:58:43,600 --> 00:58:46,200
fairly clear and that I can 
deduce. 

990
00:58:46,200 --> 00:58:50,900
All That Remains. 
Mr. Rucastle then I presume took

991
00:58:50,900 --> 00:58:55,200
to this system of imprisonment. 
Yes, sir and brought Miss Hunter

992
00:58:55,200 --> 00:58:58,300
down from London in order to get
rid of the disagreeable 

993
00:58:58,300 --> 00:59:00,300
Persistence of mr. 
Fowler. 

994
00:59:01,000 --> 00:59:03,500
That was it, sir. 
But mr. 

995
00:59:03,500 --> 00:59:08,000
Fowler being a persevering, man,
as a good, Seaman should be 

996
00:59:08,800 --> 00:59:12,000
Blockaded the house and having 
met you succeeded by certain 

997
00:59:12,000 --> 00:59:15,500
arguments metallic or otherwise 
in convincing. 

998
00:59:15,500 --> 00:59:17,900
You that your interests were the
same as his. 

999
00:59:19,000 --> 00:59:23,200
Mr. Fallow is a very kind spoken
free, and it gentleman said mrs.

1000
00:59:23,200 --> 00:59:26,800
Toller serenely. 
And in this way, he managed at 

1001
00:59:26,800 --> 00:59:30,200
your good man should have no 
want of drink and that a ladder 

1002
00:59:30,200 --> 00:59:32,900
should be ready at the moment 
when your master had gone out. 

1003
00:59:33,500 --> 00:59:35,800
You have it sir. 
Just as it happened. 

1004
00:59:36,900 --> 00:59:40,900
I am sure we owe you an apology.
Mrs. Toller said Holmes for you 

1005
00:59:40,900 --> 00:59:43,300
have certainly cleared up 
everything which puzzled us. 

1006
00:59:44,800 --> 00:59:47,500
And here comes the country 
surgeon and mrs. 

1007
00:59:47,500 --> 00:59:50,400
Rucastle. 
So I think Watson that we had 

1008
00:59:50,400 --> 00:59:53,000
best escort Miss Hunter back to 
Winchester. 

1009
00:59:53,500 --> 00:59:56,600
As it seems to me that our Locus
standi now is rather a 

1010
00:59:56,607 --> 01:00:00,500
questionable one. 
And thus was solved, the mystery

1011
01:00:00,500 --> 01:00:03,200
of the Sinister house with the 
copper beeches in front of the 

1012
01:00:03,200 --> 01:00:06,600
door. 
Mr. Rucastle survived, but was 

1013
01:00:06,600 --> 01:00:09,500
always a Broken Man. 
Kept alive, solely through the 

1014
01:00:09,500 --> 01:00:13,100
care of his devoted wife. 
They still live with their old 

1015
01:00:13,100 --> 01:00:17,200
servants, who probably know, so 
much of rucastles past life that

1016
01:00:17,200 --> 01:00:19,000
he finds it difficult to part 
from them. 

1017
01:00:19,900 --> 01:00:23,300
Mr. Fowler, and Miss rucastle, 
were married by special license 

1018
01:00:23,300 --> 01:00:27,100
in Southampton, the day after 
their flight and he is now the 

1019
01:00:27,100 --> 01:00:28,800
holder of a government 
appointment. 

1020
01:00:29,100 --> 01:00:33,700
In the island of Mauritius as 
Thomas violent, Hunter, my 

1021
01:00:33,700 --> 01:00:37,100
friend homes, rather to my 
disappointment manifested. 

1022
01:00:37,100 --> 01:00:40,300
No further interest in her, when
once she had ceased to be the 

1023
01:00:40,300 --> 01:00:43,700
Centre of one of his problems. 
And she is now the head of a 

1024
01:00:43,700 --> 01:00:47,700
private school at Walsall where 
I believe that she has met with 

1025
01:00:47,700 --> 01:00:52,500
considerable success. 
End of the adventure of the 

1026
01:00:52,500 --> 01:00:56,200
copper beeches and the last 
story in The Adventures of 

1027
01:00:56,200 --> 01:00:58,600
Sherlock Holmes by Sir, Arthur 
Conan Doyle. 

1028
01:01:00,100 --> 01:01:05,600
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1029
01:01:05,600 --> 01:01:09,800
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